Dyeing-machine.



J. G. EVENDEN.

DYEING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED 1120.4, 1908.

Patented June 17, 1913.

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2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

J. 0. EVENDEN.

DYEING MACHINE.

Patented June 17 APPLICATION FILED DBO. 4, 190B.

U TED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN G. EVENDEN, OF AMSTERDAM, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE'ASSIGNHEMS, TO KLAUDEE-WELDON DYEING MACHINE COMPANY, OF AMSTERDAM, NEW YORK,

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DYEING-MACHINE.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it lmown that '1, JOHN C. EVENDEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Amsterdam, in the county of Montgomery and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in' Dyeing-Machines, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, such as will enable others skilled in the artto which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to apparatus for dyeing, scouring, bleaching, or otherwise treating fibrous material, and it more particularly relates to an improvement in apparatus of this character adapted for dyeing skein yarn composed of various materials.

One of the objects of the invention is to provide apparatus such that the yarn will be uniformly saturated or impregnated with the dye.

Another object is to provide, in combination with a rotary carrier for the material to be dyed, new and improved means whereby the dye liquor may be caused to circulate through the dye tank in a direction opposite to the direction of movement of said material.

A further object is to provide new and improved means for moving the skeins of yarn upon their respective carriers whereby all portions of the skeins are uniformly subjected to the action of the dye liquor.

Other objects will be in part obvious and in part pointed out hereinafter.

.The invention accordingly consists in the features of construction, combinations of elements and arrangement ,of parts which will be exemplified in the construction hereinafter set forth, and the scope of the application of which will be indicated in the following claims.

In the accompanying drawings, wherein are illustrated two of various possible embodiments of the invention, Figure 1 is a Vertical sectional view taken longitudinally of the machine; Fig. 2 is a view in elevation of a portion of the rotary carrier for the material to be dyed, showing the means for driving the yarn sticks; Fig. 3 is an end view of a portion of the frame for carrying the material to be treated and showing the a rangement of the gears by means of which the yarn sticks are rotated; and Fig.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented J une 17,1913.

Application filed December 4, 1908. Serial No. 465,903.

4 is a view in elevation partly broken away showing a difierent embodiment of carrier for the material to be treated.

Similar reference characters refer to simbeing immersed in the dye liquor as shown.

Referring to Figs. 1 to 3 inclusive, the numeral 7 designates a plurality of frames, said frames being interposed between wheels 5 and 6 and journaled at their upper portions upon stud screws 8 suitably fastened in the wheels, the construction being such that the frames hang upon their journals and remain at all times in vertical position as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings. It is to be understood, of course, that the frames 7 when wheels 5 and 6 are rotated will be first dipped vertically into the dye liquor, then moved sidewise through the same and withdrawn from the liquor in a vertical direction.

Journaled in the upper portion of each of frames 7 in the present instance are a plurality of preferably square yarn sticks 10, said sticks extending lengthwise of the frames and being supported in the end walls 11 and 12 thereof. Each of these sticks at one end is operatively connected with a gear Wheel 13 as clearly shown in Figs. 2 and 3, the several gear wheels preferably intermeshing as shown so as to rotate simultaneously in the directions indicated by the of said.

. yarn, and it will be understood that the squared sticks as well as the round ones may be conveniently removed from their supports by moving the same longitudinally to the left, in Fig.2, for example, when it is desired to position the skeins in operative position with respect to the sticks or remove them, as when the dyeing operation has been completed.

In order to maintain a circulation of the dye liquor through the tank in a direction opposite to that in which the material to be treated is moved therethrough, I provide a false structure within the dye tank comprising a floor 18 in the bottom portion of the tank, said floor being spaced from the bottom wall 20 and terminating short of the end walls of the tank as shown. Extending upward from one end of this floor through the dye-liquor and transversely of the tank is a partition 21 which is provided with a plurality of perforations 22 through which the dye liquor may circulate as indicated by the arrows; Upon the opposite end of the floor 18 is providedan imperforate partition 23, said partition extending transversely of the tank and upward in the dye liquor, but terminating short of the upper surface thereof. A steam pipe 24 extends transversely of the tank ad acent the junction of floor 18 with the perforated partition 21, said steam pipe being provided with jets 25 which deliver steam beneath the false floor 18 in the direction indicated by the arrows.

Having thus described the construction of this embodiment of my invention the operation thereof may now be understood. When shaft 2 is rotated, thereby rotating wheels 5 and 6 in the direction indicated by the arrows, the frames 7 are progressively dipped in the dye liquor in a vertical direction, moved sidewise therein and then withdrawn from the dye liquor vertically, as has been hereinbefore explained, gear wheels 14 rotating the square sticks 10 simultaneously with the rotative movement of the rotary carrier. The jets in the steam pipe 24 will cause the hotter dye liquor to How in the direction of theescaping steam underneath the floor 18, thence over the end of the partition 23 and through the tank as indicated by the arrows, the colder liquor being drawn through the perforated partition 21. It will,.

therefore, be seen that the continuous circulation of the dye liquor is maintained in the tank and that the direction of circulationthereof is opposite to the direction of the movement of the carriers forthe material which is being treated. In Fig. 4 I have illustrated a different embodiment of carrier for the material to be treated, said carrier comprising a perforated box which may be interposed between the wheels 5 and 6 and suspended therefrom upon stud screws-26. These boxes may be similarly carried through the dye liquor when the supporting wheels are rotated.

A bowl 27 is suitably supported above the tank and is connected therewith by means of a pipe 28 extending downwardly between partition 21 and the end of the tank. From this pipe leads a pipe 29 which .extends transversely across the tank and is provided witli a plurality of downwardly directed perforations 30. The color from the bowl 27 flows by gravity through pipe 28 into pipe 29, from which it is drawn by suction produced by the circulation previously described. This insures that the dye shall be thoroughly mixed and dissolved in the liquid before the same is passed through the material which is being treated.

It will accordingly be seen that I have provided a construction well adapted to attain among others all the ends and objects above pointed out in an extremely simple,

yet efficient, manner. It will be obvious that the various relative movements which take place between the material to be treated and the dye liquor will result in an even and thorough impregnation of said material with the dye. If desired a suitable cover may be positioned upon the tank.

'As many changes could be made in the above construction and many apparently widely different embodiments of this invention could be made without departing from the scope thereof, it is intended that all matter contained in the above description or shown in the accompanying-drawings shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense. It is also to be understood that the language used in the following claims is intended to cover all of the generic and specific features of the invention herein described, and all statements of the scope of the invention which, as a matter of language, might be said to fall therebetween.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is: v

1. In a dyeing apparatus the combination with a tank of means adapted to circulate a liquor within said tank in a closed path from one side to another, means adapted to tank and suitably journaled upon the side partition, thence longitudinally of the tank walls thereof, a structure mounted upon said in a direction opposite to that of the moveshaft comprising spaced rotary carriers ment of said material through the tank which extend downwardly into the liquor, whence it flows through said perforated parframes carried by said carriers and intertition. 1 v

posed between the same, the construction be- 4. In a dyeing apparatus, the combination ing such that said frames will be progreswith a tank adapted to hold the dye liquor,

sively dipped into the liquor and Withdrawn of a rotary carrier forthe material to be therefrom during the rotation of said cardyed supported above the tank and partly riers, a plurality of sticks supported in the immersed in the dye liquor so that when upper portion of each'of said frames, intersaid carrier is rotated the material to be meshing gear wheels operatively associated dyed will be progressively immersed and with said sticks for rotating the same, and a withdrawn from the liquor, and means for gear wheel fixed upon one of the carriers compelling a circulation of the dye liquor and meshing with said first-mentioned gear through said tank, comprising a false floor wheels to drive the same simultaneously arranged in the lower portion of the tank with the rotation of said carriers. and spaced from the bottom wall thereof,

2. In a dyeing apparatus, the combination said floor terminating short of the end walls with a tank adapted to hold a dye liquor, of of the tank, a transverse perforated partition a rotary carrier positioned above said tank extending upwardly through the tank from so that its periphery passes through said dye one end of said floor and an imperforate parliquor for carrying the material to be dyed tition extending transversely of the tank at into and out of the tank, and means within the opposite end of said floor, said partition said tank for compelling the dye liquor conterminating below the surface of the liquor, tained therein to circulate in a closed path and a steam pipe extending transversely of from one side to another opposite in directhe tank at one end thereof and having jets 7 tion to the movement of the material to be for delivering the steam beneath said floor, dyed as it passes laterally through said tank the direction of said'jets being such that the on said rotary carrier. .dye liquor is compelled to flow first between 3. In a dyeing ap aratus, the combination said floor to the bottom wall of said tank,

with a tank adapte to hold the dye liquor, thence upward and over said imperforate 0 of a rotary carrier for the material to e: partition, thence longitudinally of the tank dyed operatively positioned with respect to in a direction opposite to the movement of the tank and adapted to immerse said mathematerial to be treated, thence through terial in the dye liquor during the rotation said perforated partition, whence it returns thereof, and means for compelling a circulato be again circulated throughsaid tank. tion of the dye liquor, comprismg a false 5. In a dyeing apparatus, in combination floor in the lower portion, a perforated para tank, means adapted to circulate a liquid tition extending transversely of the tank within said tank in a closed path from one and spaced from the end wall thereof adjaside to another and means adapted to move cent the end of said false floor, an imperan article laterally in said tank against the forate partition extending transversely 'of flow of said liquid. the tank at the opposite end thereof, and In testimony whereof I aflix my signature, spaced ffrogi lthe en tthvalgtaf thettanhdr, 9 1111% in the presence of two witnesses. means or e iverm e am in o t e ta beneath said false oor in such direction as JOHN N' will causethe .dye liquor to flow between Witnesses: said floor and, the bottom wall of the tank, CHARLES Fnonmon', thence upward and over said imperforate HARRY Srmnnnmm. 

